American Women Since 1945
Author | : Rochelle Gatlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rochelle Gatlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. J. Kleinberg |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 1999-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349276987 |
Women in the United States, 1830-1945 investigates women's economic, social, political and cultural history, encompassing all ethnic and racial groups and religions. It provides a general introduction to the history of women in industrializing America. Both a history of women and a history of the United States, its chronology is shaped by economic stages and political events. Although there were vast changes in all aspects of women's lives, gender (the social roles imputed to the sexes) continued to define women's (and men's) lives as much in 1945 as it had in 1830.
Author | : Nancy MacLean |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1319242820 |
The American women’s movement was one of the most influential social movements of the twentieth century. Beginning with small numbers, the women’s movement eventually involved tens of thousands of women and men. Longstanding ideas and habits came under scrutiny as activists questioned and changed the nation’s basic institutions, including all branches of government, the workplace, and the family. Nancy MacLean’s introduction and collection of primary sources engage students with the most up-to-date scholarship in U.S. women’s history. The introduction traces the deep roots of the women’s movement and demonstrates the continuity from women’s activism in the labor movement and New Deal networks, the black civil rights movement, and the peace movement to the height of Second Wave feminism and into the Third Wave. The primary sources reflect the social breadth and depth of the movement. Dispelling the misconception that the American women’s movement was solely a white, middle-class cause, the documents include the voices of women of all ages, classes, and ethnicities. Topics addressed range from wage discrimination, peace activism, housework and childcare, sexuality, and reproductive rights to welfare, education, socialism, violence against women, and more. Document headnotes, a chronology of the women’s movement, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and index support student learning, classroom discussion, and further research.
Author | : Robert Henri |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Modernism (Art) |
ISBN | : 9780813536842 |
The seven essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School to recover the lesser known work of Robert Henri's women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this era.
Author | : Nancy A. Hewitt |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 047099858X |
This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.
Author | : Melissa A. McEuen |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820337587 |
Drawing on war propaganda, popular advertising, voluminous government records, and hundreds of letters and other accounts written by women in the 1940s, Melissa A. McEuen examines how extensively women's bodies and minds became "battlegrounds" in the U.S. fight for victory in World War II. Women were led to believe that the nation's success depended on their efforts--not just on factory floors, but at their dressing tables, bathroom sinks, and laundry rooms. They were to fill their arsenals with lipstick, nail polish, creams, and cleansers in their battles to meet the standards of ideal womanhood touted in magazines, newspapers, billboards, posters, pamphlets and in the rapidly expanding pinup genre. Scrutinized and sexualized in new ways, women understood that their faces, clothes, and comportment would indicate how seriously they took their responsibilities as citizens. McEuen also shows that the wartime rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and postwar opportunity coexisted uneasily with the realities of a racially stratified society. The context of war created and reinforced whiteness, and McEuen explores how African Americans grappled with whiteness as representing the true American identity. Using perspectives of cultural studies and feminist theory, Making War, Making Women offers a broad look at how women on the American home front grappled with a political culture that used their bodies in service of the war effort.
Author | : Joanne Jay Meyerowitz |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781566391719 |
In the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. This work unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed from this one-dimensional image.
Author | : Nancy MacLean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Griffith |
Publisher | : Wadsworth |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780618550067 |
This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essys on important topics in U.S. history. The book asks students to evaluate primary surces, test the interpretations and draw their own conclusions.
Author | : Leila J. Rupp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |